Michael Krebber
Untitled (Allan McCollum) / Untitled (Daniel Buren) / Untitled, 1989

Artist
Michael Krebber

Title
Untitled (Allan McCollum) / Untitled (Daniel Buren) / Untitled

Year of creation
1989

Technique and dimensions
2 framed photocopies, each 49 x 41 cm, edition: 10 / 3 photographs black and white on barite paper, each 30.3 x 23.8 cm

Year of acquisition
2008

Acquisition of the foundation

With his intangible and open work, Michael Krebber is difficult to describe. A painter who doubts painting, who questions the limits of painting, shifts painterly qualities and materials, moves between form and formlessness, and yet has an eye on stylistic means. Krebber does not want to be recognizable by the style of his own appearance or his objects, but rather by his attitude towards things, which is, however, quite vague. What seems to connect his works is the critical examination of art in general and of his own work in particular. This moment of distance as a way of working makes it clear that questioning one's own works and reflecting on them is a prerequisite for artistic work.

Thus, the focus does not seem to be on the medium of painting, but rather on the conditions and continued existence of it in an age in which it has theoretically had its day - in times of digitalization and film. Taking up traditional elements and oriented towards classic canvases, his conceptual fabric paintings seem to question the material and expand the concept of painting. His fabric paintings in the tradition of Sigmar Polke are re-formed and revised in various galleries and express the contingency of an exhibition.